Here we have
the humiliating spectacle of a president of the United States begging
an Arab potentate to increase our supply of oil while Democrats, who
bear the major responsibility for the problem, scoff at him as a
mendicant groveling at the feet of a foreign monarch.

As humiliating as it is for the United States to be put in a
position where our economy is held hostage to foreign oil producers who
can make or break our nation simply by limiting their petroleum
production, thus causing the price of oil to skyrocket, it is even more
shameful that we have allowed the so-called environmental movement to
escape the blame for our predicament.

Make no mistake about it, you are paying exorbitant prices at the
gas pump solely because the environmental terrorists and their Democrat
allies in Congress have all but shut down our domestic oil production
while refusing to allow the exploration and creation of new sources of
this resource so vital to our economic health.

While President Bush was left with few if any alternatives to
seeking help from the Saudis thanks to our inability to exploit our own
untapped oil supply, it is disturbing that instead of demanding that
Saudi Arabia act on our behalf by beefing up oil production, we asked
them politely to do what they should do without being asked. They owe
us at least that.

When my dad, Ronald Reagan, was in Berlin he did not mince words
when addressing Chairman Gorbachev about what he should do about the
Berlin Wall. He didn’t ask, “Mr. Gorbachev, would you please be a good
fellow and tear down this wall?” He demanded: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down
this wall.”

Instead of politely saying to the Saudi king, “If possible, your
majesty, consider what high prices [of oil] are doing to one of your
largest customers,” as he said he would when he met with the king, the
president should have bluntly informed the king: “Hike up production,
or from now on you are on your own and at the mercy of al Qaeda.”

George Bush should have stood on his bully pulpit and pointed his
finger at Capitol Hill and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and said, “How
dare you not give the nation an energy policy? Because you won’t give
us an energy policy I have been forced to go the Saudi Arabia, get down
on my knees and beg them to give us what you refuse to give us – an
adequate supply of reasonably priced oil.”

George Bush should point the finger of blame at Mrs. Pelosi and
Sen. Reid and their environmentalist co-conspirators for refusing to
enact an energy policy that dictates drilling in ANWR and the Florida
Gulf -- where the Chinese and Cubans are drilling for the huge
plentiful supply of oil beneath the seas to their heart’s content. We
should also be harnessing nuclear power, and mining clean coal now
locked up for alleged environmental reasons in well over a million
acres of land in southwest Utah in the Grand Staircase-Escalante
National Monument, which contains at least 7 billion tons of coal worth
over $1 trillion.

To get an idea of just what using nuclear power can do for America,
look at the USS Ronald Reagan. During the life of the two nuclear
reactors on that carrier, the American taxpayers will be saved $579
billion in fuel costs. Nobody has died on nuclear-powered aircraft
carriers or submarines, and nobody has died in the U.S. because of a
nuclear accident.

We can’t exploit nuclear power or drill for oil in ANWR or the Gulf
because Democratic members of congress have been bought and paid for by
the most dangerous terrorists in America, the radical
environmentalists.

They make the Taliban and al Qaeda look like Mother Teresa’s nuns.
They have wreaked such havoc here in the U.S. with their terrorist
tactics that the president of the United States is reduced to begging
for oil, a plentiful domestic resource but, thanks to them, off-limits
to the American people.

We need a surge here at home to deal with these terrorists. With
the Capitol Hill Democrats, they are the American people’s deadliest
enemies.

Mike Reagan, the eldest son of President Ronald Reagan, is heard on more than 200 talk radio stations nationally as part of the Radio America Network.

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